Failure to rescue and pulmonary resection for lung cancer

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 149, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1365-1373.e3

  Farjah, Farhood ^a   Backhus, Leah ^a   Cheng, Aaron ^a   Englum, Brian ^b   Kim, Sunghee ^b   Saha Chaudhuri, Paramita ^b   Wood, Douglas E ^a   Mulligan, Michael S ^a   Varghese, Thomas K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b DUKE CLINICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Health policy; Lung cancer; Outcomes research; Quality improvement

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; AGED; ARTICLE; ATELECTASIS; BRONCHOPLEURAL FISTULA; CANCER PATIENT; COHORT ANALYSIS; DEATH; FAILURE TO RESCUE; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG HEMORRHAGE; LUNG LOBECTOMY; LUNG RESECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); PNEUMONIA; PNEUMOTHORAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL MORTALITY; ADVERSE EFFECTS; CLINICAL TRIAL; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FACTUAL DATABASE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; PATHOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; TIME FACTOR; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; TREATMENT FAILURE; UNITED STATES;

AGED; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT FAILURE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84929606681     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: 1097685X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2015.01.063     Document Type: Article

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